Real Steel

[TheSeeker]

They had me at fighting robots.

 

[Shazam!]

Hand on heart, that trailer makes me think that movie is my kind of stupid.

Agreed. It really looks like some wacky 80s movie.

 

[Greg Cox]

Yeah, this is one of those where you just have to wonder "Why?" Who thought this would be a cool idea?

Richard Matheson wrote the book steel which the movie is based after. this is the same guy who wrote I am legend and what dreams may come?

And Somewhere In Time and The Incredible Shrinking Man and Hell House and Duel and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Enemy Within" and the original Kolchak tv-movies, among many others.

 

[RAMA]

The main reason it was probably made is because of the current popularity of MMA and UFC fights...the robots in the trailer are not just boxing. I'm curious to see how different the main thrust of the plot is compared to the original story from TZ.

Edit: I watched the official trailer for the first time...it seems that the human isn't fighting at all, he's in control of an inferior sparring robot, probably because his got destroyed in a fight.

RAMA

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I'm eagerly awaiting the release of the upcoming Hungry Hungry Hippos movie, based on a short story by Richard Matheson from 1958 about a perilous journey down the rivers of East Africa in search of giant pearls guarded by multicolored hippopotamuses controlled by deranged children.

Only the most incredible parts of this story are true.

 

[timothy]

I just wished we actually had these robots in real life it would be awesome.
hell I would pay for ppv. it would blow the wwe away. and you know it.

 

[stonester1]

Robots are cool. I'm there.

 

[Trekker4747]

Well, glad there will be many of you out there with me at the theater loving the stupid this movie offers.

 

[stonester1]

I'm with stupid.

 

[Greg Cox]

Needless to say, I'm hoping this movie is a monster hit--for Richard's sake.

 

[Agenda]

The idea was intriguing when I first heard it, but the trailer is making it look like a Wonderful World of Disney flick with a little bit more violence.

 

[B.J.]

Were we to actually have robots in society, people would use them in this way and it would be a huge money maker in the underground (probably on TV too).

I just wished we actually had these robots in real life it would be awesome.
hell I would pay for ppv. it would blow the wwe away. and you know it.

Well, BattleBots didn't last on TV for very long. (Okay, actually RC mechanisms and not true robots, but I think the point holds.)

 

[InklingStar]

Simpsons did it. And they did it better too, probably.

 

[Ethros]

will The Gender Bender be in this movie?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

^ It's a remake of a 50-year-old Twilight Zone episode. How original could it be?

It's funny, when I first saw that ep, I thought, "this is a fascinating idea that someone could do more with than just one episode."

 

[Broccoli]

I'm eagerly awaiting the release of the upcoming Hungry Hungry Hippos movie

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTdbe2EZgT0[/yt]

 

[DarthPipes]

^ It's a remake of a 50-year-old Twilight Zone episode. How original could it be?

That was one of my favorite TZ episodes, starring Lee Marvin. Though I think it's safe to say that it's loosely based on that episode, which was based on Richard Matheson's short story.

 

[Greg Cox]

Just heard from Richard's agent. Apparently, the folks at Disney/Dreamworks were nice enough to arrange an advance screening for Richard, who really liked the movie.

 

[timothy]

that's cool lucky him. I am glad he likes it. I am looking forward to it my self.

 

[Amaris]

^ It's a remake of a 50-year-old Twilight Zone episode. How original could it be?

That's the first thing I thought of as well when I saw the ad for it today.
Hell, the name of that episode is "Steel", so they didn't have to put too much into the title either.